Matches to Watch, Day Three

There’s a nice mix of first and second round matches today, and this also presents really good stuff we’ve been looking forward to since the tournament began. Play!

Richard Gasquet v. Rafael Nadal; Arthur Ashe, Late Afternoon:

Gasquet has been gone all summer thanks to a suspension after low doses of cocaine was discovered in a drug test (in perhaps the best excuse we’ve ever seen, he blamed it on kissing a Miami cocktail waitress), but we’ve always loved his game and we wish that he could somehow give a good push here. This will also be our first look at Nadal, bad knees and all, and we’ll get a hint if he’s going to make a serious run in this Open.